Georgia Code — 52
Browse 210 sections in division 52 of the Georgia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 52-1-1. Short title.
- § 52-1-2. Legislative findings and declaration of policy; public trust doctrine for tidewaters.
- § 52-1-3. Definitions.
- § 52-1-4. Declaration of public nuisance.
- § 52-1-5. Order for removal of structures; service and posting of order.
- § 52-1-6. Hearings and review.
- § 52-1-7. Seizure and removal of structures; notice; sale or disposal.
- § 52-1-8. Remedies not exclusive.
- § 52-1-9. Allowance of time for finding new residence.
- § 52-1-10. Issuance of permit; term; revocation.
- § 52-1-30. Short title.
- § 52-1-31. Legislative findings and declaration of policy.
- § 52-1-32. Definitions.
- § 52-1-33. Declaration of public nuisance.
- § 52-1-34. Order for removal of structures; service and posting of order.
- § 52-1-35. Hearings and review.
- § 52-1-36. Seizure and removal of structures; notice; sale or disposal.
- § 52-1-37. Remedies not exclusive.
- § 52-1-38. Allowance of time for finding new residence.
- § 52-1-39. Issuance of permit; term; revocation.
- § 52-2-1. Short title.
- § 52-2-2. Definitions.
- § 52-2-3. Projects which may be considered self-liquidating; lease or sale of manufacturing or processing facilities; inclusion in projects of leased facilities and facilities acquired for use as ports.
- § 52-2-4. Creation of authority; status of authority as an instrumentality of state and a public corporation.
- § 52-2-5. Composition of authority; appointment, terms, and qualifications of members generally; filling of vacancies; election of chairperson, vice chairperson, and secretary-treasurer; quorum.
- § 52-2-6. Compensation of members and reimbursement for expenses.
- § 52-2-7. Making of rules and regulations; delegation of powers and duties; perpetual existence of authority.
- § 52-2-8. Eligibility for membership.
- § 52-2-9. Powers of authority generally.
- § 52-2-10. Applicability of traffic laws; enforcement by peace officers; traffic citations; issuance of bench warrant upon failure of offender to appear; enforcement of dock related city ordinances; venue.
- § 52-2-11. Power of authority to borrow money, to execute evidences of indebtedness, and to secure such indebtedness; sale and other disposition of property; utilization of proceeds of sale.
- § 52-2-12. Funds for acquisition of land and construction of port facilities.
- § 52-2-13. Approval and consent of State Properties Commission for acquisition of real property by authority.
- § 52-2-14. Conveyance of Medical Depot site to authority; power to sell conveyed surplus lands and improvements; power to borrow and to issue revenue anticipation certificates.
- § 52-2-15. Revenue bonds - Issuance; payment of principal and interest from special fund; dating of bonds; determination of rate of interest; time of maturity; redemption before maturity.
- § 52-2-16. Revenue bonds - Form of bonds; denominations; place of payment of principal and interest.
- § 52-2-17. Revenue bonds - Signatures; seal.
- § 52-2-18. Revenue bonds - Status of bonds as negotiable instruments; tax exemption for bonds and for income therefrom.
- § 52-2-19. Revenue bonds - Issuance in coupon, registered, or book-entry form.
- § 52-2-20. Revenue bonds - Determination of price; use and manner of disbursement of proceeds; procedure where proceeds are less than or greater than cost of projects.
- § 52-2-21. Revenue bonds - Issuance of interim receipts, interim certificates, and temporary bonds; replacement of mutilated, destroyed, or lost bonds.
- § 52-2-22. Revenue bonds - Conditions precedent to issuance; application of bonds of a single issue to payment of one or more projects; effective date of resolutions providing for issuance; passage of resolutions.
- § 52-2-23. Revenue bonds - Aid by Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission.
- § 52-2-24. Revenue bonds - Status of bonds as a debt of state or a pledge of faith and credit of state; issuance as obligating state to levy tax or make appropriation; obligation to pay principal and interest on bonds; recitals on face of bonds.
- § 52-2-25. Revenue bonds - Securing of bonds by trust indenture.
- § 52-2-26. Revenue bonds - Remedies of bondholders and trustee.
- § 52-2-27. Revenue bonds - Protection of rights of bondholders.
- § 52-2-28. Revenue bonds - Revenue refunding bonds.
- § 52-2-29. Revenue bonds - Status of bonds as legal investments and as securities for deposits.
- § 52-2-30. Revenue bonds - Confirmation and validation of bonds; venue of actions to confirm and validate bonds or to enforce rights under chapter.
- § 52-2-31. Power of authority to fix, revise, and collect charges; factors governing determination of amount of rentals and other charges; creation, use, and disposition of sinking fund; cancellation of purchased or redeemed bonds.
- § 52-2-32. Status of contracted-for rentals as obligations of state; payment of rentals; power of authority to enforce lessees' duty to perform covenants and obligations; assignment of rentals due.
- § 52-2-33. Duty of authority to prescribe rules and regulations for operation of projects; duty of authority to impose and collect rentals and other charges for use of facilities of projects.
- § 52-2-34. Acceptance of grants from federal agencies and of contributions of money and property from other sources.
- § 52-2-35. Requirement as to competitive bidding for contracts for new construction.
- § 52-2-36. Status of moneys received under chapter as trust funds; provision by authority for payment of moneys to designated trustee; investment of moneys; sale of investments and reinvestment.
- § 52-2-37. Creation of authority and carrying out of authority's corporate purpose as constituting a public purpose; covenant with bondholders as to tax-exempt status of authority's property.
- § 52-2-38. Construction of chapter.
- § 52-2-39. Supplemental nature of chapter.
- § 52-3-1. Purpose of chapter.
- § 52-3-4. Cooperation with federal government; acquisition of property and rights.
- § 52-3-5. Exercise of power of eminent domain.
- § 52-3-6. Seal; election of officers.
- § 52-3-7. Right of Department of Transportation to receive and use gifts and donations of money and property.
- § 52-3-8. Procedure in cases where property required for right of way or spoil disposal areas has been leased for cultivation and gathering of oysters.
- § 52-3-9. Claims for damages to oysters.
- § 52-3-10. Power of Governor to assign assistant attorney general to assist commission.
- § 52-3-11. Right of Department of Transportation to enter lands in order to locate rights of way.
- § 52-3-12. Effect of chapter on state's jurisdiction over lands affected by chapter; effect on service of process on such lands.
- § 52-4-1. Filing of petition for incorporation; contents of petition; filing fee.
- § 52-4-2. Issuance of certificate of incorporation.
- § 52-4-3. Maintenance by Secretary of State of files and books regarding canal companies.
- § 52-4-4. Time of commencement of corporate existence; duration of corporate existence.
- § 52-4-5. Petitioners as constituting first board of directors; election of officers; prescription of rules and bylaws; opening books of subscription for capital stock.
- § 52-4-6. Publication of notice upon subscription for all of capital stock and payment of 10 percent thereof; authorization for commencing transaction of business; personal liability of directors and stockholders.
- § 52-4-7. Location of principal office.
- § 52-4-8. Powers and duties of companies generally.
- § 52-4-9. Right of corporation to increase or decrease capital stock.
- § 52-4-10. Power of companies to enlarge works and appliances of canals and branch canals and to deepen and widen canals.
- § 52-4-11. Furnishing of canal water by canal companies; charges for use of water.
- § 52-4-12. Toll rates for use of canals.
- § 52-4-13. Encroachment of canals upon public roads; construction and maintenance of bridges.
- § 52-4-14. Mortgage, sale, or lease of canal, other properties, corporate rights, and franchises.
- § 52-4-15. Disagreements as to compensation for taking of lands, tenements, or riparian rights pursuant to chapter.
- § 52-4-16. Taxes applicable to canal companies.
- § 52-5-1. Granting of corporate powers and privileges by Secretary of State.
- § 52-5-2. Filing of petition for incorporation; contents of petition; attachment of affidavit of incorporators; endorsement, recordation, and filing of petitions by Secretary of State.
- § 52-5-3. Issuance of certificate of incorporation generally.
- § 52-5-4. Time of commencement of corporate existence; payment of fee for issuance of certificate.
- § 52-5-5. Duty of Secretary of State to assure company's compliance with chapter prior to issuance of certificate; certificate as constituting evidence of corporation's existence and compliance with chapter.
- § 52-5-6. Organization of company; quorum; election of first board of directors; qualifications of directors; election and appointment of officers and agents; annual election of, and filling of vacancies on, board of directors.
- § 52-5-7. Opening books of subscription for capital stock; restriction on increase of capital stock.
- § 52-5-8. Manner of payment for stock; auction sale of stock upon default by subscriber; giving delinquent subscriber notice of auction sale.
- § 52-5-9. Stock as constituting personal property; determination of manner of transfer of stock.
- § 52-5-10. Procedure for increase of capital stock.
- § 52-5-11. Powers of companies generally.
- § 52-5-12. Adoption of chapter by companies incorporated prior to April 1, 1969, and by persons otherwise owning or operating a navigation business.
- § 52-6-1. Composition of board; terms of commissioners.
- § 52-6-2. Filling of vacancies on board.
- § 52-6-3. Qualifications of commissioners.
- § 52-6-4. Areas for which commissioners appointed.
- § 52-6-5. Appointment of master pilot; duties of master pilot generally.
- § 52-6-6. Right of commissioners to bring an action to recover forfeitures.
- § 52-6-7. Manner of application of fines and forfeitures.
- § 52-6-8. Keeping of records by board; designation of chairperson of board; keeping list of pilots whose licenses have been revoked; access of public to records.
- § 52-6-9. Salary or fees of secretary.
- § 52-6-10. Determination of location of office of commissioners; location of books, papers, and records of commissioners.
- § 52-6-11. Rules and regulations; reciprocal pilotage in port of St. Marys and tributaries of St. Marys River.
- § 52-6-30. Qualifications for pilot's license.
- § 52-6-31. Number of pilots.
- § 52-6-32. Restrictions as to persons who may receive fees, gratuities, or rewards for conducting or piloting vessels.
- § 52-6-33. Form of license; oath of pilot.
- § 52-6-34. Pilots' bonds - Generally.
- § 52-6-35. Pilots' bonds - Continuation of existing bonds; venue of actions on bonds; parties to actions.
- § 52-6-36. Revocation of license for conducting or piloting vessel arrested under court process.
- § 52-6-37. Authority of commissioners to suspend pilots, to revoke licenses, and to assess fines and penalties; grounds for suspension, revocation, fines, or other penalties.
- § 52-6-38. Hearings before commissioners; enforcement of decrees and orders by execution or warrant of distress.
- § 52-6-39. Issuance of subpoenas.
- § 52-6-40. Failure of witness to answer subpoena.
- § 52-6-41. Taking of interrogatories and depositions from nonresidents and seamen.
- § 52-6-42. Appeal to superior court - Generally.
- § 52-6-43. Appeal to superior court - Use of interrogatories and depositions.
- § 52-6-44. Fees relating to hearings before commissioners.
- § 52-6-45. Vessels to be under direction and control of licensed pilots; exemptions; use of docking pilots.
- § 52-6-46. Pilotage fees - Fees for coastwise vessels.
- § 52-6-47. Pilotage fees - Time of payment; security for payment.
- § 52-6-48. Pilotage fees - Requests or demands by pilots of fees different than those fixed by commissioners.
- § 52-6-49. Liabilities and penalties for failure to take pilot or pay pilotage fees.
- § 52-6-50. Fees of pilots aiding vessel in distress.
- § 52-6-51. Right of pilot boat to one-third of inward and outward pilotage fee.
- § 52-6-52. Liability for detaining pilots on vessels.
- § 52-6-53. Compulsory retirement of pilots.
- § 52-6-54. Acting as pilot without license; interfering with or disturbing licensed pilot.
- § 52-7-1. Short title.
- § 52-7-2. Declaration of policy.
- § 52-7-3. Definitions.
- § 52-7-4. Requirement as to numbering of vessels; titling; requirements for hull damaged vessel.
- § 52-7-5. Numbering of vessels; requirements; fees.
- § 52-7-6. Exemptions from numbering requirements.
- § 52-7-7. Dealers' vessels.
- § 52-7-7. 1. Hull identification numbers required; penalty for violations.
- § 52-7-7. 2. Display of hull identification numbers on new vessels.
- § 52-7-7. 3. Seizure of vessels without hull identification numbers; seizure of related property; inspections.
- § 52-7-7. 4. Property not subject to replevin; report by law enforcement agency of seizure of property; procedures.
- § 52-7-7. 5. Counterfeit hull identification numbers; penalty.
- § 52-7-7. 6. Exception to requirement for hull identification numbers.
- § 52-7-8. Classification of vessels; required equipment.
- § 52-7-8. 1. Discharge of sewage from vessels on lakes; use of vessels with marine toilets on protected fresh waters; certificate and recordation requirements.
- § 52-7-8. 2. Restrictions on operation of personal watercraft.
- § 52-7-8. 3. Operation of watercraft; identification; operation by minors.
- § 52-7-8. 4. Definitions; anchorage restriction areas; permit requirement for long-term anchoring in estuarine areas; short-term anchoring; safe harbor; exceptions.
- § 52-7-9. Boat liveries.
- § 52-7-10. Exhausts to be muffled; exemptions; noise level testing.
- § 52-7-11. Lights.
- § 52-7-12. Operation of watercraft while under influence of alcohol, toxic vapors, or drugs; legal drug use not exempted; blood and other chemical tests; test refusal; owner's liability for allowing another to operate while intoxicated; civil and criminal actions; child endangerment.
- § 52-7-12. 1. Reckless operation of vessel or other water device.
- § 52-7-12. 2. Homicide by vessel.
- § 52-7-12. 3. Feticide by vessel.
- § 52-7-12. 4. Serious injury by vessel.
- § 52-7-12. 5. Ordering drug, alcohol, or other substance tests; implied consent warning; reports; suspension; hearing; certificate of inspection.
- § 52-7-12. 6. Terms of suspension; return of operating privilege; operation when suspended.
- § 52-7-12. 7. Suspension of privileges to operate a vessel upon waters of this state for violations of vessel laws.
- § 52-7-13. Boating safety zones; restrictions on use of motors and operation of houseboats on certain lakes; exceptions.
- § 52-7-14. Collisions, accidents, and casualties; salvage rights.
- § 52-7-15. Furnishing information to federal officials and agencies.
- § 52-7-16. Towing persons on water skis, aquaplanes, surfboards or similar device.
- § 52-7-17. Speed and load restrictions; riding of bow or gunwale of vessel.
- § 52-7-18. Rules of the road for boat traffic.
- § 52-7-19. Regattas, boat races, marine parades, tournaments, and exhibitions.
- § 52-7-20. Operation of vessels in vicinity of regulatory markers and aids to navigation; tampering with regulatory markers and aids to navigation.
- § 52-7-21. Local regulations concerning operation, equipment, numbering, and other matters relating to vessels.
- § 52-7-22. Comprehensive boating educational programs; required completion; exception.
- § 52-7-23. Power of Board of Natural Resources to adopt rules and regulations.
- § 52-7-24. Filing and publication of rules and regulations and amendments thereto.
- § 52-7-25. Enforcement of article.
- § 52-7-26. Penalty.
- § 52-7-30. Compact enacted and entered into; provisions of compact.
- § 52-7-31. Administration of compact; reciprocal suspension when operating privileges suspended in party state; Board of Natural Resources to publish rules and regulations; creation of compact manual.
- § 52-7-40. Definitions.
- § 52-7-41. Requirement as to attachment of capacity plates to vessels generally.
- § 52-7-42. Information to be marked on capacity plate.
- § 52-7-43. Determination of maximum capacity.
- § 52-7-44. Affixing of capacity plate by person other than vessel manufacturer; effect of such action on liability of manufacturer.
- § 52-7-45. Information on capacity plate as constituting a warranty; nature of warranty.
- § 52-7-46. Alternative compliance with article if affixing of capacity plate deemed impracticable or undesirable.
- § 52-7-47. Exemption of watercraft by rules and regulations of Board of Natural Resources.
- § 52-7-48. Promulgation of rules and regulations by Board of Natural Resources generally.
- § 52-7-49. Exemption of watercraft manufactured for personal use.
- § 52-7-50. Applicability of article.
- § 52-7-51. Penalty.
- § 52-7-70. Definitions.
- § 52-7-71. Removal and storage of vessels; procedure.
- § 52-7-72. Authority of peace officer to cause removal of unattended vessels; notifications; duties.
- § 52-7-72. 1. Penalty for failing to remove unattended vessel.
- § 52-7-73. Lien on vessel; foreclosure in courts competent to hear civil cases.
- § 52-7-74. Procedure for foreclosure.
- § 52-7-75. Public sale of vessel; disposition of excess proceeds.
- § 52-7-76. Issuance of certificate of title.
- § 52-7-77. Payment of balance remaining after satisfaction of liens, security interests, and debts.
- § 52-8-1. Throwing stone, gravel, or other ballast into navigable waters.
- § 52-8-2. Duty of pilots to report unlawful discharge of stone, gravel, or other ballast into bays and harbors.
- § 52-8-3. Recovery of forfeiture; attachment and replevy of vessels.
- § 52-8-4. Power of municipalities to prohibit throwing or depositing of substances which might lessen depth of navigable waters.
- § 52-8-5. Power of municipalities to prohibit throwing or depositing of substances dangerous to navigation or injurious to vessels.
- § 52-9-1. Projects for improving navigation channels.
- § 52-9-2. Disposal of sand and sediment originating from water navigation related projects.
- § 52-10-1. "Public corporation" defined.
- § 52-10-2. Application by public corporation to establish and operate foreign trade zone.
- § 52-10-3. Application by private corporation to establish and operate foreign trade zone.
- § 52-10-4. Authority to establish and operate foreign trade zone; conditions and restrictions of act of Congress.